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How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

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Never Out of Season
Rob R. Dunn
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Never Out of Season

How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

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The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance--once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to nature's fury. And nature always wins.

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Hachette Book Group, Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Pages
323

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Subjects
Food consumption, Food crops, Agricultural ecology, Food supply, Crops, New York Times reviewed, NATURE / Natural Resources, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Consumers' preferences

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Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
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Table of Contents

1. A banana in Every Bowl Page 3
2. An Island Like Ours Page 13
3. The Perfect Pathological Storm Page 28
4. Escape is Temporary Page 44
5. My Enemy's Enemy Is My Friend Page 56
6. Chocolate Terrorism Page 72
7. The Meltdown of the Chocolate Ecosystem Page 91
8. Prospecting for Seeds Page 103
9. The Siege Page 115
10. The Grass Eaters Page 131
11. Henry Ford's Jungle Page 144
12. Why We Need Wild Nature Page 158
13. The Red Queen and the Long Game Page 170
14. Fowler's Ark Page 182
15. Grains, Guns, and Desertification Page 212
16. Preparing for the Flood Page 230
Epilogue: What Do I Do? Page 250
Acknowledgements. Page 259
Notes. Page 265
Index. Page 311

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York, USA
Other Titles
How having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future
Copyright Date
2017

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641.3, 338.1/9
Library of Congress
TX353 .D88 2017, TX357 .D83 2017, GN407

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Hardcover
Pagination
vii, 323 pages
Number of pages
323
Dimensions
9.5 x 6.375 x 1.25 inches

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OL27230842M
ISBN 10
031626072X
ISBN 13
9780316260725
LCCN
2016958939
OCLC/WorldCat
974636738

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